"In our experience, we are more likely to see errors made in the direction of assuming competence on the part of people who may be fairly impaired than incorrectly assuming incompetence in people who are not impaired," Dr. Appelbaum said.
All which led parliamentarian Ian Austin to say to David Crompton, the current South Yorkshire chief constable, "I'd assumed this was [police] incompetence but what we have heard about the break-in, files stolen and no record.
Well, he was wrong about Iraq, of course, but I don't think that anyone then could have foreseen or imagined the incompetence with which the Americans there assumed their colonial role.
Concluding that the Fed is leading us into inflation assumes a degree of incompetence that I simply don't buy.
Mr. Ben Jeddou, who assumed the Interior Ministry post in a cabinet reshuffle after Mr. Belaid's assassination, rejected the opposition's accusations of incompetence or lack of will.
I assumed that given how important Iraq is to the Bush legacy, the president would never tolerate the sort of incompetence he has tolerated.
Some will have assumed this week's headlines blaming Facebook for Lee Rigby's murder were just the usual spin, diverting the attention from the agencies' own incompetence.
In doing so, stakeholders implicitly assume that dilemmas are a sign of incompetence or would lead to societally undesirable effects.
However, it would be arrogant for those in Washington, DC, to assume that Japan's troubles simply reflected its macroeconomic incompetence.
Mothers feel victimised, fathers feel guilty, mothers define themselves by assuming command on the home front, fathers convinced of their own parental incompetence stay later at work.
